Applications of bound states in the continuum in photonics

M Kang, T Liu, CT Chan, M Xiao - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Bound states in the continuum (BICs) have attracted attention in photonics owing to their
interesting properties. For example, BICs can effectively confine light in a counterintuitive …

Topological phononic metamaterials

W Zhu, W Deng, Y Liu, J Lu, HX Wang… - Reports on Progress …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The concept of topological energy bands and their manifestations have been demonstrated
in condensed matter systems as a fantastic paradigm toward unprecedented physical …

Engineered moiré photonic and phononic superlattices

M Oudich, X Kong, T Zhang, C Qiu, Y Jing - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Recent discoveries of Mott insulating and unconventional superconducting states in twisted
bilayer graphene with moiré superlattices have not only reshaped the landscape of …

Observation of topological corner state arrays in photonic quasicrystals

A Shi, Y Peng, J Jiang, Y Peng, P Peng… - Laser & Photonics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, the studies of topological corner states (TCSs) have been extended from crystals
to quasicrystals, which are referred to as higher‐order topological quasicrystalline insulators …

Non-Abelian Topological Bound States in the Continuum

L Qian, W Zhang, H Sun, X Zhang - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Bound states in the continuum (BICs), which are spatially localized states with energies lying
in the continuum of extended modes, have been widely investigated in both quantum and …

Higher-order topological in-bulk corner state in pure diffusion systems

Z Liu, PC Cao, L Xu, G Xu, Y Li, J Huang - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Compared with conventional topological insulator that carries topological state at its
boundaries, the higher-order topological insulator exhibits lower-dimensional gapless …

Observation of topologically enhanced third harmonic generation in doubly resonant nonlinear topolectrical circuits

W Hu, B Ruan, W Lin, C Liu, X Dai, S Wen… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
The ability to confine and guide wave makes topological physics a promising platform for
large local field enhancement and strong scattering immunity, which enables efficient …

Photonic topological subspace-induced bound states in the continuum

W Yan, W Liu, W Cheng, F Chen - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are intriguing localized states that possess
eigenvalues embedded within the continuum of extended states. Recently, a combination of …

Realization of a quadrupole topological insulator phase in a gyromagnetic photonic crystal

P Zhou, GG Liu, Z Wang, S Li, Q Xie… - National Science …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The field of topological photonics was initiated with the realization of a Chern insulator
phase in a gyromagnetic photonic crystal (PhC) with broken time-reversal symmetry (T) …

Photonic Square‐Root Second‐Order Topological Bound States in the Continuum

W Yan, W Cheng, Q Liu, W Liu, B Zhang… - Laser & Photonics …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Second‐order topological bound states in the continuum (SOTBICs) have received widely
attention in photonics due to theirs counterintuitive localized properties. A model of square …